Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. Use the word not as a means of denial or in antithesis, never as a means of evasion.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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Monthly Archives: February 2024
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
― Walter Benjamin
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It is knowledge that influences and equalises the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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The longer one lives in this world, the more tempting it becomes to escape, and to disappear.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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The imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The church that Joseph Smith set about building was almost achingly American. He held up the Constitution as a quasi-canonical work of providence. He published a new sacred text, the Book of Mormon, that centered on Jesus visiting the ancient Americas. He even taught that God had brought about the American Revolution so that his Church could be restored in a free country—thus linking Mormonism’s success to that of the American experiment. And yet, almost as soon as Smith started attracting converts, they were derided as un-American.
~ McKay Coppins via The Atlantic
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The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don’t use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
~ Iris Murdoch
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The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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